The SCAN Foundation

A July 22 op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle written by Dr. Bruce Chernof, president and CEO of The SCAN Foundation, highlights the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program.

CLASS is a provision of the new health care law that creates a voluntary, federally administered insurance product that working adults can purchase in order to help cover long-term supports and services. Titled, “Reform eases long-term health care woes,” Dr. Chernof points out that CLASS needs broad participation in order to be successful, and it creates a conceptual shift away from needing care in old age as an experience rooted in poverty with limited choices toward one of independence, control and dignity.

To read the op-ed in its entirety, please click here.

The op-ed was also picked up by the California HealthCare Foundation's California Healthline and Kaiser Health News' Daily Health Policy Report.